Earth's History Flocab

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Science
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8th Grade
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Hard
+3
Standards-aligned
Lisa Thompson
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15 questions
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Fossil remains of a trilobite are most likely to be found in which type of rock?
igneous
volcanic
sedimentary
metamorphic
Tags
NGSS.MS-LS4-1
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What role do faults play in the Law of Superposition?
Faults create new types of rock.
Faults are younger than the layers they cut through.
Faults are the same age as the layers they cut through.
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS1-4
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Many fossils of large amphibians were found in an area that is currently barren desert. Which is most likely true?
The climate of the area was once much wetter than it is now.
Amphibians were once better at surviving in dry environments.
The amphibians migrated there after a catastrophic event destroyed their habitats.
The amphibians are not native to the area and their bones were brought there by other animals.
Tags
NGSS.MS-LS2-4
NGSS.MS-LS4-1
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Which type of dating method can be used on rock layers by applying the Law of Superposition?
relative dating
absolute dating
radioactive dating
radiometric dating
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS1-4
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
The idea states the same processes that occurred in the past operate in the same way as they do in the present.
Absolute Dating
Relative Dating
Catastrophism
Uniformitarianism
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Fossils can tell us all of the following information about an organism except:
How the animals might have traveled
What kinds of food the organism eats
What type of environment the organism may have lived in
The organism's life expectancy (or how long the organism will live)
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Several different fossils were found in rock layers in a geologic column. Above these rock layers, the fossils were almost nonexistent. Which most likely explains these observations?
nonconformity occurred
the organisms migrated.
a period of mass extinction occurred.
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS1-4
NGSS.MS-LS4-1
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